“I had spent two and a half years talking to politicians, which is not my favorite occupation. Then I realized it was foolish to let this disagreeable business get in the way of what I love doing best. I wanted to prove to myself that I could absorb what has happened to me and transcend it. And now, at least, I feel that I have.”

She wanted to tell the old woman to let her be, to go off and hunt, her favorite occupation.

Catching Griff at his regimen was a favorite occupation those early days in December.

“Reading is my favorite occupation.”

In 1865, Karl Marx confessed that he considered his chief characteristic “singleness of purpose,” and that his favorite occupation was “bookworming.”